Prime Minister Narendra Modi is upset with the disruptions in the Rajya Sabha by the Congress Party, but the Prime Minister's Office is more concerned about Rajya Sabha TV per se.

The feedback about the party has not been positive. BJP MPs have complained to the PMO that the Rajya Sabha MPs are at times critical of the Modi government. RS TV receives grants from the government, but it wants independent coverage of news content, which is out of sync with government policies and programmes. Rajya Sabha TV came up for discussion before officials of the PMO for budgetary grants. The Department of Expenditure has also given a report to the PMO about RS TV.

A draft report of CAG and also a PIL filed by Prashant Bhushan is pending before the apex court.

Interestingly, Finance minister Arun Jaitley, who is also Leader of Rajya Sabha has to take a call. PMO has politically approached the RS TV as it is a pet project of the Rajya Sabha chairman Hamid Ansari.

The PMO wants to wait for one more year so that the Dr Ansari's successor will take a call on the continuance of RS TV. Talks are on whether it should be merged with Lok Sabha TV and have one channel for both houses.

BJP leaders are cribbing about the news content of RS TV which has always been encouraging negative pictures about the ruling party.